The second ALPHA build of the 4.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on SourceForge for the amd64, i386 architectures.
The image checksums, ISO images and USB images are available here:http://www.ghostbsd.org/download-4.0

We chat with Warren Block to discuss BSD documentation efforts and
future plans. If you've ever wondered about the scary world of mailing
lists, today's tutorial will show you the basics of how to get help and
contribute back. There's lots to get to today, so sit back and enjoy
some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

Paul Irofti (pirofti@) wrote in about his ongoing effort to untangle acpiec events. Paul writes,

The following patch attempts to fix an issue where multiple ACPI EC
events pile up during suspend and fill a buffer that upon resume
prevent further event notifications.
The fix clears up the event queue early on during resume and also upon
initial acpiec(4) attach.

And of course there's a patch to test - description and download link after the fold.
Read more...

A recording of Baptiste Daroussin speaking at vBSDCon in October 2013.
He is a FreeBSD source committer and project developer for PkgNG. PkgNG
is a package management tool for FreeBSD. It is the replacement for the
current pkg_info/pkg_create/pkg_add tools.